A 911 call set off a frantic search for a missing 14-year-old girl on Tuesday.

A 911 call set off a frantic search for a missing 14-year-old girl on Tuesday.

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Updated: 6:23 AM CDT Jun 13, 2014

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WEBVTT New tonight --- the 9-1-1 call that set off a frantic search for a missing 14-year-old girl. (Kevin) On Tuesday, a man who said he was an actor befriended a Baxter girl and convinced her to get in his car. The girl's friend saw it all unfold and ran to tell the missing girl's grandmother... Vanessa Peng has tonight's top story. (1-shot) (Vanessa) The grandmother called 9-1-1 right away...and in the recording you're about to hear -- you can sense how distraught and scared she was as deputies searched for her granddaughter. <2:40 "CHASITY!" panting> A distraught grandmother calls for her granddaughter while she's on the phone with a 9-1-1 dispatcher. All Tiera McKenzie knows is...her granddaughter ran off with a strange older man. <0:15 HE WANTED, HE TOOK HER AWAY TO TALK TO HER I'M GOING TO GO FIND MY GRANDKID BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHO THIS GUY IS." 22 Moments before 33 year old David LaVera met 14- year-old Chasity Leon at a park in Baxter after chatting on Facebook. He told Leon he was an actor from the Twilight movies... A few days before, Leon and her friends took pictures with LaVera and asked for his autograph. <1:28 "SHE TOOK PICTURE OF THIS GUY I CAN'T BELIEVE HE DID THIS THIS IS WEEKS AGO AND NOW HE'S HERE AND HE TOOK MY GRANDDAUGH ER OFF." 36> Once the two met up, she got into his car. Chasity's friend saw what happened and ran to tell Chasity's grandmother who lived nearby. <5:35 "THEY WAS AT THE PARK GUY WALKED UP TELL THEM HE'S FROM TWILIGHT HE'S FROM TWILIGHT AND HE WANT TO TALK TO HER AND THEY TOOK OFF AND SHE CAN'T FIND HER AND I CAN'T FIND HER." 45> Friends and family acted quickly... minutes later they found Chasity and got her out of LaVera's car before even police found him. (1-shot) (Vanessa) We checked tonight.... and LaVera is still in Jasper County Jail on a 50 thousand dollar bond. Kevin. ((DBL BOX BACK TO JUST KEV))

911 calls detail abduction attempt

A 911 call set off a frantic search for a missing 14-year-old girl on Tuesday.